Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook is a book of exercises and language tasks for all learners of Mandarin Chinese. Divided into two sections, the Workbook initially provides exercises based on essential grammatical structures, and moves on to practice everyday functions such as making introductions, apologizing and expressing needs.
With an extensive answer key at the back to enable students to check on their progress, main features include:
- exercises at various levels of challenge for a broad range of learners
- cross-referencing to the related Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar
- a comprehensive index to exercises alphabetically arranged in terms of structures, functions, and key Chinese structure vocabulary.
This second edition also offers a revised and expanded selection of exercises including new task-based exercises.
Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook is ideal for all learners of Mandarin Chinese, from beginner to intermediate and advanced students. It can be used both independently and alongside theModern Mandarin Chinese Grammar (978-0-415-82714-0), which is also published by Routledge.
Introduction. How to use this book. Part A Structures:
1. Overview of
pronunciation and Pinyin romanization
2. Syllable, meaning, and word
3. The
Chinese writing system: an overview
4. Phrase order in the Mandarin sentence
5. Nouns
6. Numbers
7. Specifiers and demonstratives
8. Classifiers
9. Noun
phrases
10. Adjectival verbs
11. Stative verbs
12. Modal verbs
13. Action
verbs
14. Prepositions and prepositional phrases
15. Adverb
16. Conjunctions
17.Aspect
18. Resultative verbs
19. Directional verbs
20. b sentences: The
disposal construction
21. The passive Part B: Situations and functions
22.
Names, kinship terms, titles, and terms of address
23. Introductions
24.
Greetings and goodbyes
25. Basic strategies for communication
26.
Telecommunications and e-communications: telephones, the internet, and faxes
27. Negating information
28. Asking questions and replying to questions
29.
Expressing identification, possession, and existence
30. Describing people,
places, and things
31. Describing how actions are performed
32. Indicating
result, conclusion, potential, and extent
33. Making comparisons
34. Talking
about the present
35. Talking about habitual actions
36. Talking about the
future
37. Indicating completion and talking about the past
38. Talking about
change, new situations, and changing situations
39. Talking about duration
and frequency
40. Expressing additional information
41. Expressing contrast
42. Expressing sequence
43. Expressing simultaneous situations
44. Expressing
cause and effect or reason and result
45. Expressing conditions
46.
Expressing both, all, every, any, none, not any, and no matter
how
47. Expressing location and distance
48. Talking about movement,
directions, and means of transportation
49. Talking about clock time and
calendar time
50. Expressing obligations and prohibitions 51 Expressing
commands and permission
52. Expressing ability and possibility
53. Expressing
desires, needs, preferences, and willingness
54. Expressing knowledge,
advice, and opinions
55. Expressing fear, worry, and anxiety
56. Expressing
speaker attitudes and perspectives
57. Topic, focus, and emphasis
58. Guest
and host
59. Giving and responding to compliments
60. Expressing satisfaction
and dissatisfaction
61. Expressing gratitude and responding to expressions of
gratitude
62. Invitations, requests, and refusals
63. Expressing apologies,
regrets, sympathy, and bad news
64. Expressing congratulations and good
wishes Answer key Index
Claudia Ross is Professor of Chinese at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Jing-heng Sheng Ma is Professor Emeritus of Chinese at Wellesley College, Massachusetts.
Baozhang He is Associate Professor of Chinese at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Pei-Chia Chen is Lecturer in Chinese at the University of California, San Diego.
